Full coverage: Broadband

He’s sold cars, run restaurants, built fibre networks in the Caribbean — and lost almost everything in the crash. Today, Peter McCarthy leads the Speed Fibre Group. His mission: to challenge Eir, reshape the market, and future-proof Ireland’s digital backbone.

Ireland has made strides in broadband but a national strategy for future-ready connectivity is essential to sustain economic growth and innovation, writes Vodafone Ireland's outgoing CEO.

Rural provider Wireless Connect said it is now competing with National Broadband Ireland as a result of unfair mapping exercises by Irish authorities. The European Commission disagreed.

The high-speed satellite broadband business, set up by Musk’s SpaceX company, entered the Irish market three years ago but only just filed accounts for 2022.

Potentially valued at €1.5 billion, Virgin Media Ireland's mobile and broadband footprint have been weakening. So who might buy the company, and what would a sale mean for the future of Ireland's broadband and telecom market?

Nine months after its signature, the contract between the Government and Granahan McCourt’s companies to deliver broadband to every building in rural Ireland has been published. Or at least some of it has.

The government has made its decision, appointing the company led by David McCourt to deliver high-speed connectivity to every home, farm and business in Ireland. The next challenge is to account for the €3 billion taxpayers will pour into the plan.